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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE..

ALBERT E. HAYDEN, OF HOLYOKE, MASSACHUSETTS, ASSIGNOR, BY MESNE ASSIGNMENTS, TO I-IIMSELF AND EUGENE CLIFFORD HAYDEN, OF SAME PLACE.

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SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 284,634, dated September 11, 1888.

` `Appiican'n inea May 8,1883. (No masi.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ALBERT EDWARD HAY- DEN, of Holyoke, in the county of Hampden,

of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Shirts; and lI do hereby declare the same to be described in the following specification and represented in the accompanying drawings, of which-- Figure l is a front view of a shirt provided with my invention, the nature of which is defined in the claims hereinafter presented. Fig. 2 is a view of the shirt-front as it appears without the folded and slotted bosom. Fig. 3 is a transverse section of such bosom. Fig.A 4 is a transverse section of the shirt-front and the folded bosom. Fig. 5 is a representation of the shirt-bosom as open or folded back, so as to show the fly and buttons.

My invention relates particularly to what are termed wheelmen s shirts;77 and it consists in the inode of making the bosoms and lthe fronts of such shirts.

'The shirt-front is simply open from the collar or neck band down the middle of such front to the waist, or thereabout, such being as shown in Fig. 2, in which the opening in the front A is represented at a as extending downward from the collar b a suitable distance. v

The bosom B is formed of a single piece of cloth or material separate from the shirt-front, and preparatory to being laid thereon and stitched thereto is folded, slit, andprovided 35 with buttons and a buttoning-ly-that is to say, it is folded widthwise in manner as shown in transverse section in Fig. 3, in which the front is shown as folded at f and g, so as to have at and down its middle a broad plait, p. 4o It isv next folded at e, directly underneath the middle of such plait p, and extended laterally beyond the bend f a suitable distance to d, where it is again folded back to c. Next the cloth is folded outwardly at h a short distance 4 5 froml the bend g, and again inwardly at fi at a distance, g i, equal to f d, all being as repre- .been so prepared is to be laid on the shirtfront so as to have the plait p at its middle directly over the opening at the middle of such shirt-front, which having been done, the folds of the bosom are to be sewed together by rows of stitches arranged in thempand the shirt-front in manner as lshown at n n, o 0,- q q, ro', ands in Figs. I and 4. The bosom is also at its lower end to be stitched to the shirtfront, while at its upper end such bosom, with the exception of the part thereof which laps on the iy, is to be stitched to the shirt-front or the collar. vIn the bosom, along the middle of it, I usually have two rows of eyelets to receive a cord laced through them and eyelets in the collar or neck band.

I' amaware that a shirt has been patented which has a bosom somewhat like the overlapping portion of the bosom herein shown.

I claim- I. In a shirt, the bosom B, having the folds d ef g t' and slit in the fold e, as set forth.

2. In a shirt, the bosom B, having the folds d e f g t' and slit in the fold e, and provided 8o with the separable fastenings or a buttoningfly and buttons, arranged in and secured to opposite parts of such fold, as set forth.

3. The shirt A, having the slit a in front, in combination with the bosom B, having the `folds d e f g e' and slit in the fold e, such bosom beingsewed to the shirt-front, as set forth and described.

ALBERT EDWARD HAYDEE r Witnesses:

B. H. EDDY, E. B. PRATT. v 

